Specs Committee Meeting – December 10, 2015

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Dec

Is there a difference between the terms “curbside” or “residential”? Which is better?

The committee held a conference call to discuss a various feedback and concerns given from last meeting dated 11/23/2015. We went into details on some of the specific concerns regarding naming of grades, prohibitive material and various other amendment requests.

It was also brought to our attention some retractions were not noted by stakeholders. We would like to reiterate that we withdrew our recommendation to delete Over-Issue News #9 from the specification.

Agenda for 12/10/2015

Numbering assignments – completed

Feedback – completed

-two specification guideline amendment requests received

Moisture discussion at NOLA – completed

1.) Naming Assignments

The committee tentatively discussed the numbering to be paired as per the below however; ultimately we decided to re discuss this issue and ask general members for feedback.

Key questions: DO WE NEED NUMBERS or DO WE NEED ACRONYMS? Or should we RENUMBER?

Sorted Clean News (#8)

Sorted Residential Papers (#7)

Sorted Mix Paper (#1)

Sorted Hard Mix (3)

OCC#11

Deletion of News Grades #6

Deletion of Mix Grades #2

2.) Feedback Given

The committee went over specific specification guideline amendment requests received